Miguel Prado
has told Dexter about a murderer named Ethan
Turner, who has
been killing off his rich wives for their money.

Dexter stalked
him at a sporting goods store, and
discovered that he was going on a cruise to Bimini. So he sailed his boat
to the island, planning to intercept Turner there.

In this scene,
we see a wide shot of the beach, with the cruise ship docked on the horizon
offshore.

Dexter is lying
on the beach, sunning himself, and watching the married Turner flirt with
a girl in a bikini.

Dexter has another
daydream of Harry warning him that he will have to choose between his domestic
situation with Rita and his lethal hobby, but he's convinced that he can
make time for both.

Then we hear
an announcement that the last shuttles to the cruise ship will be leaving
soon. Dexter bluffs his way on board the ship, and later kills and dismembers
Turner in his cabin.

Q.
What is it actually in real life?

A. A beach,
but 2,300 miles away from Bimini.

Q.
Where can I find it in real life?

A. In the first
& second seasons, the "Dexter" crew used a beach area called
Bayshore Beach (at the corner of 54th Place and Ocean Blvd) for several
scenes, including a beachside restaurant in
the first season where Dexter met Debra's new guy (who turned out to be
Dexter's long-lost brother), and in the second season as a tropical
cafe where Debra talked to Lundy, and as the location of the
pier where Dexter dropped tools into the water (to frame Doakes).

This
scene wasn't shot on that small beach, which faces inland towards the Alamitos
Bay. But it was filmed right across the
highway (Ocean Blvd), at the larger beach
- which faces the ocean,just south
of the intersection of Ocean Blvd & Claremont Place,
in Long Beach, CA.

The
cruise ship on the fake horizon was artificially inserted via green-screen,
which also helped mask Long Beach's infamous oil islands, which lie
just a mile off the coast.

The
beach is right next to a parking lot, where the Long Beach peninsula begins,
about a mile southeast of the Belmont Pier.

There
is a paved walkway leading from the northwest edge of that parking lot,
about 500 feet out onto the sand of the beach, almost to the tide line
(which no doubt proved helpful in moving the filming equipment).

I
shot this very wide-angle photo below in 2009. ( Note the oil island
and the oil tankers off the Long Beach coast. )

And
here's a blow-up of one of those photos, showing a close-up of that oil
island off the coast.

A. At
first, I was fairly certain that the scene had been shot on nearby Bayshore
Beach since the wicker tiki huts in the scene strongly resemble the Alfredo's
snack stand on that inland beach, and I knew that they had filmed on that
little beach several times in the past.

But
it was also clear that they had heavily used green-screen/CGI effects to
insert that cruise ship on the horizon, so I couldn't be sure of it.
When I finally heard from someone who knew, I learned that it was
actually shot on the main beach across the street from Bayshore.